Wednesday, 15 August 2012

Parachute Rescue System

Since our uav is going to land on a parachute, we started with PRS design. For the very beginning we used FloWizard software (from Fluent) to simulate flow around different shapes of parachute.

Few results:

Fig. 3 Flowpath



Fig.2 Vortexes 

Fig.3 Velocity distribution